Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...losses in the Falkland Islands sobered the British public about the war. The excitement, tinged with jingoism, of the early days of the conflict was gone; the destruction of four warships of the Royal Navy was a jolt. Telegrams of sympathy from across Britain, and from Canada, Australia and the U.S., poured into Plymouth, home port of the Ardent and the Antelope. Lord Mayor Reg Scott said his city's mood was one of "grief tempered with determination...
...Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964); of a heart attack; in Stockholm. Tormented by guilt for having escaped the Holocaust and convinced that the modern world had gone mad, Weiss, who was a naturalized Swedish citizen, created polemical works of intense graphic imagery meant to jolt audiences out of their complacency. In Marat/Sade he explored clashing views of society: De Sade's celebration of self-indulgence and individualism vs. French Revolutionary Marat's defense of mass killing for the good of mankind. In his later works, Weiss, an avowed Marxist, railed against the Viet...
...House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Jones. The impressive result: tentative agreement on a sweeping plan to reduce the projected 1983 deficit by billions through spending cuts, adjustments to the Social Security program and new taxes. If approved, the compromise would bring the deficit below $100 billion and possibly jolt wary financial markets into lowering the high interest rates that have been strangling hopes for an economic recovery. Only two officials have yet to approve the bipartisan package. Two very important officials: House Speaker Tip O'Neill and President Ronald Reagan...
After the shuttle's main wheels touched the chalky ground, its nose suddenly veered up, almost as if it were about to take off again. Mission controllers had a brief, horrifying vision of the nose gear thudding back down on the hard desert floor and collapsing under the jolt. But Lousma gently leveled the ship off and let it roll out to a halt. Initially, NASA officials speculated that Columbia's lurching might have been caused by an unexpected gust of wind. But later they insisted that Lousma had eased the stick back, probably to slow the ship...
...worst jolt of joblessness may be that first notice of it-the firing, the layoff, the company closure. That event, whatever its form, typically arouses feelings like grief, as though a loved one had died, according to experts like Industrial Psychologist Joseph Fabricatore of Los Angeles. The victim, says Fabricator, passes through stages of disbelief ("This can't be happening"), shock numbness, rage. The elemental severity of such a reaction tells a great deal about the invisible desolation that is possible-and commonplace-in the world of the jobless. The bruising can show up in feelings of worthlessness. Rage...